BEIJING (Dow Jones)–China’s Ministry of Transport Tuesday said that it has tightened control over a new breed of super-sized iron ore freighters stopping at Chinese ports, requiring a more stringent [...]
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BEIJING -(Dow Jones)- A deepwater oil exploration vessel belonging to China Oilfield Services Ltd. (2883.HK) sank Saturday during construction at a dock in east China, the company said in a [...]
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By Mark Weiss, gCaptain contributor The main concern at Vale S.A., that which has driven its order of dry bulk vessels with a 400,000 ton capacity, the ‘Valemax’, is competition… The [...]
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